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But Ms Faulkner and 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown, producer Stephen Rice, cameraman Benjamin Williamson and sound recordist David Ballment were charged with kidnapping and held in custody for two weeks.

Brown and the rest of the crew flew out of Beirut on Wednesday after Mr Elamine agreed to drop the kidnapping charges against them all in return for his former partner's agreement not to contest custody.

Cradling her sleeping baby, Ms Faulkner is seen telling her mother Karen: "I had to try."

Tara Brown and Sally Faulkner after their release from a Beirut jail. Photo: Channel Nine

"We understand, we wanted you to try," her mother replied.

In the voice-over, Usher says: "It had come to this: saying hello to one child after saying goodbye to her two older children in Lebanon".

"It was a failure which ended very badly for everyone involved."

In tears, Ms Faulkner revealed her daughter had given her a ring in their last meeting before she flew out of Lebanon.

"She said, so you don't forget me."

Brown, noticeably without her TV hair and make-up, also spoke with Usher about her fortnight-long tussle with Lebanese authorities.

"I thought we're journalists, we're doing our job and they will see reason, they will understand that. We are here just to do a story on a very desperate mother and I thought that reason would prevail, and it didn't," she said.

Usher said several staff from 60 Minutes and Nine News management have already been interviewed by the panel reviewing the botched operation.

"That review continues this week focusing on the editorial approval of this story and the actions of our crew in Beirut," he said.

Mr Elamine has not dropped charges against the child recovery team members who seized the children on a Beirut street as they walked with Mr Elamine's mother on April 6.